Wendy Katz

Wendy Katz

Wendy J. Katz is an associate professor of art history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she is also a Fellow of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the International Quilt Study Center, and a faculty member of Nineteenth-Century Studies and the Harris Center for Judaic Studies. She studies how the language of taste, as wielded by patrons, critics and artists to describe American art expresses moral and social values. Her research has focused on 17th-century Anglo-American portraits, 19th-century landscape, genre painting, and sculpture, and African-American art. She is currently completing a book onThe Politics of Art Criticism in the New York Penny Press.

Selected Publications

The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898: Art, Anthropology and Popular Culture, editor, University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

“Women and Art in the Passing Show,” in The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898: Art, Anthropology and Popular Culture, ed. Wendy Jean Katz (University of Nebraska Press, 2018) 105-160.

“Women and Art in the Passing Show,” in The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898: Art, Anthropology and Popular Culture, ed. Wendy Jean Katz (University of Nebraska Press, 2018) 105-160.

“Fancy Painting, Street Children and the Fast Men of the Pavé,” Nineteenth-Century Studies, 21 (2007) 85-126.

Courses

102: Introduction to Art History and Criticism: Renaissance to the present251: American Art to 1865252: American Art 1865-1945391: American Society and Culture in the Civil War Era451/851: Nineteenth-Century American Art452/852: American Art 1893-1939498/898: Special Topics (Winslow Homer/Thomas Eakins; Rethinking Regionalism: Art, Landscape
and Culture of the West; Great Plains Art Exhibition: Sex & Gender in the Art of the Plains)901: Methodology and Historiography of Art History919: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Nineteenth Century951: Seminar in American Art